Gray Merchant of Asphodel forces your opponents to lose X life, equal to your devotion to black, and then you gain the total amount of life lost
I cant wait until we have enough that I can build something weird and off-color, like a Golgari knight reanimator deck
A lot of its garbage but the thing about garbage is you can still make a really tall stack of it
If you want to go big, cards like Doubling Season, Vorel of the Hull Clade, Winding Constrictor, and Deepglow Skate can double or even explode the number of counters, making your payoff cards hit game-ending levels in just a turn or two
The card that breaks the rulesStoneforge Mysticis the culprit, and my takeaway is that Tinker effects are unsafe and present tough constraints on all future cards